Oct 07
Digital Book World reports that Hachette Book Group is getting prepped to distribute all of its English eBook titles worldwide.
Oct 06
Read the Kindle PaperWhite review at TechHive. Apparently Amazon’s doing something right with this upgrade.
Oct 04
The Wall Street Journal posted Barnes and Noble’s announcement of the most exciting book and eBook buying season ever. (Have to hand it to B&N. Still, performing well in a highly competitive marketplace.) GoodeReader reports on a law in France that is bound to handicap Amazon’s paper book business with new restrictions on free shipping. …
Oct 03
Wired offers a slightly shrill (or is it just the headline?) piece by Art Brodsky on the problems of inflated prices, availability and publisher greed in the eBook Revolution with warnings that the current trends could fuel a “reads” and “reads not” scenario of disparity for the future.
Oct 02
A Digital Book World post that discusses whether author web sites are worth the effort to maintain has generated some interesting “pro and con” discussion in the thread that follows it.
Oct 01
According to Gigaom, long-time online eBook and document sharing site Scribd has been quietly preparing to become the $8.99 per month eBook subscription service that launched today.
Sep 30
Digital Book World talks about the role of women in the burgeoning digital publishing industry.
Sep 29
GoodeReader reports that Sony has abandoned the U.S. eReader market deeming it unprofitable to compete against market leaders Amazon, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. They plan to take their new PRS-T3 eReader and eBookStore to the Canada, Europe, and Japan while shifting focus in the states to the more profitable mobile and tablet market.
Sep 27
CNET says that according to a patent filing Apple is developing a way for authors to sign eBooks. Digital Book World presents five challenges facing publishers in the eBook Revolution. IBN Live reports that the new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX improves on the tablet’s eBook readability. PCMag.com reviews the new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite eBook reader.
Sep 26
ITProPortal has a story where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos blames publishers and rights holders for making eBook lending difficult.
